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Albert ROBIDA

Le Dix-neuvième Siècle

Georges Decaux, Paris 1888, 21x31cm, relié.

Albert ROBIDA
Le Dix-Neuvième Siècle
Georges Decaux | Paris 1888 | 21 x 31 cm | publisher's binding
First edition, illustrated with in-text and hors-texte color drawings by Albert Robida.
Publisher's illustrated cloth in full green glazed calico signed Engel, a large polychrome gilt and palladium heightened Souze illustration continuing onto the spine and the boards, first cover board in preserved color, all gilt edges.
“What follows under an ambitious title taken simply as a label of numbers, is, of course, not a story, or a painting, or a summary, it is a series of outlines, of sketches in ink and pencil, of familiar portraits of our century at different times of his tormented life. [...] this century, if he introduced us to dark days, has had good times and rays of cheerful sunshine. This book is an outline review of the dark and joyful times of the great show piece that is being played before our eyes, of the significant events and the facts, of men and of things, of emerging types, thriving and disappearing, of fashions and of characters, – a journey in short, or rather a hundred-year cruise on the eternal river of life.” (preface)
Copies with publisher's illustrated cloth are rare and sought-after.

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